FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

tion's capital stock actually subscribed and paid for; and
provided also, that notice of such intended meeting be given
in two or more of the newspapers of the city of Baltimore,
two weeks before the time of meeting.

chap. 269.

Proviso.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the service of legal pro-
cess on the president, or on any one of the directors of the
corporation, shall be deemed a service of the same on the
corporation.

Legal process

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That if any of the stock-
holders shall fail to pay on his or her stock, such instalment
or instalments as may be demanded or required in manner
aforesaid, the dividend or dividends thereafter to be paid to
such stockholders (as well upon the money by him or her
regularly paid, as upon the money paid after default) shall
be calculated only from the time when such last mentioned

Dividends on
stock, etc.

instalments shall be made good.
Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, shall be construed to restrict the right of the le-
gislature, or of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, to
levy such tax upon the property of said corporation as may
be laid upon individual property.

Not to re-
strict the le-
gislature or
Baltimore
city council
of the right
to tax.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to authorize the said corporation to issue
any note, token or other evidence of debt, to be used as
currency.

Banking for-
bid

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That this act shall inure for
thirty years, and the legislature reserves to itself the right
to repeal this act of incorporation at pleasure.

Rights reser-
ved

CHAPTER 269.

An act to divorce Charlotte Shellman, from her husband
Jacob Shellman.

Passed March
9, 1842.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Charlotte Shellman of Frederick county, be and she
is hereby divorced From her husband Jacob Shellman a
vinculo matrimonii.

Divorced.